Arrest made in ND ticket counterfeiting...

SOUTH BEND

September 10, 2006

SOUTH BENDArrest made in ND ticket counterfeiting A University of Notre Dame official said an arrest was made Saturday regarding a football ticket counterfeiting scheme. Josh Berlo, the university's director of ticket operations, said the undercover operation was a joint effort between Notre Dame, South Bend and St. Joseph County police. Berlo said the arrest was made on the northern edge of campus during Saturday's Penn State-Notre Dame football game. He did not release the identity of the suspect, but said as many as a couple hundred counterfeit tickets were involved. Notre Dame football tickets have seven separate security features, Berlo said. "We want people to know counterfeit tickets are out there and that we're going after them," Berlo said. "People need to be careful and know who they're buying tickets from. We don't want people getting ripped off." Police are questioning two others suspected of counterfeiting tickets, Berlo said, and will conduct another undercover operation during next Saturday's Michigan-Notre Dame game at Notre Dame Stadium. VANDALIAShooting victim now in stable condition A 55-year-old Cassopolis woman who was shot multiple times Thursday in Vandalia underwent her second surgery Saturday morning in a Kalamazoo hospital and is in stable condition, according to her daughter, Denise Williams. Penny Davis was reportedly shot late Thursday morning by Roy Coker, an 80-year-old blind man she had been caring for during the past five months. Williams said her mother was not romantically involved with Coker. The wounded Davis managed to escape to the front yard before collapsing. After a four-hour standoff, police discovered Coker unconscious inside his home with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He died from his injuries at Borgess-Lee Memorial Hospital in Dowagiac. Davis is recovering at Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo. BOURBONPolice: Man sold drug to undercover officer A 39-year-old Warsaw man was arrested at a truck stop Friday after allegedly selling cocaine to an undercover police officer. According to a report from the Marshall County Sheriff's Department, the man was at the Bourbon Truck Stop, at the intersection of U.S. 30 and Beech Road, when the Marshall County Drug Task Force received information that he was responsible for dealing cocaine in both Marshall and Kosciusko counties. An undercover officer approached the man at the truck stop and reportedly was able to buy a half-ounce of cocaine from him for $500. After the purchase, the man was arrested and taken to the Marshall County Jail. The man's name was withheld pending formal charges.